Citat

"A sti sa razi in clipele tragice inseamna a stapani tragicul."

Autor: Marin Preda in Cel mai iubit dintre pamanteni 

!!! superb roman

"…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths." 

Mark Nepo - The Book of Awakening

Dickens

"N-ar trebui să ne fie niciodată ruşine de lacrimile noastre, căci ele sunt o ploaie binefăcătoare pe praful pământului care ne împăienjeneşte privirea, împovărându-ne inimle înăsprite."

Charles Dickens, Marile Speranţe

 

Hope

„Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies’’.

 (Tim Robbins - Andy Dufresne - "The Shawshank Redemption")

Memoria ...

“De ce unele imagini ne rămân tot atât de clare in minte ca în momentul când le-am sesizat, iar altele, în aparenţă mai importante, se estompează, apoi se şterg repede?”

(Climate, André Maurois)

Calitatile unui lider

Al Pacino in rolul locotenentului Frank Slade in filmul Scent of a Woman tine un discurs din care reiese "aluatul" din care este facut un adevarat lider:

"... As I came in here, I heard those words...cradle of leadership. Well, when the bough breaks, the cradle will fall. And it has fallen here, it has fallen! Makers of men, creators of leaders, be careful what kind of leaders you're producing here. I don't know if Charlie's silence here today is right or wrong; I'm no judge or jury. But I can tell you this; he won't sell anybody out to buy his future! And that, my friends, is called integrity. That's called courage. Now that's the stuff leaders should be made of. Now I have come to the crossroads in my life. I always knew what the right path was. Without exception, I knew. But I never took it. You know why? It was too damn hard. Now here's Charlie; he's come to the crossroads. He has chosen a path. It's the right path. It's a path made of principle, that leads to character. Let him continue on his journey. You hold this boy's future in your hands, committee! It's a valuable future. Believe me! Don't destroy it...protect it...embrace it. It's gonna make you proud one day...I promise you."

Diferenta dintre oameni

"The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil. The biggest of all differences between people is between those who have had pleasure in love and those who haven't."

(Chance Wayne, personaj jucat de Paul Newman, in filmul "Sweet Bird of Youth")

"An Ideal Husband" - Oscar Wilde

Mabel: You are very late! Lord Arthur
Goring: Have you missed me?
Mabel: Awfully! Lord Arthur
Goring: Then I am sorry I did not stay away longer. I like being missed.
Mabel: How very selfish of you! Lord Arthur Goring: I am very selfish. Mabel: You are always telling me of your bad qualities, Lord Goring.
Lord Arthur Goring: I have only told you half of them as yet, Miss Mabel!
Mabel: Really! Are the others very bad?
Lord Arthur Goring: Quite dreadful! When I think of them at night, I go to sleep at once.

Lord Arthur Goring: I'm sorry, Father, but the truth is, this is not my day for talking seriously.
Lord Caversham: Well, what do you mean, sir?
Lord Arthur Goring: I mean that I only talk seriously on the first Tuesday of every month. Between noon and three.

Lord Caversham: What are you doing here, sir? Wasting your time, as usual?
Lord Arthur Goring: My dear father, when a man pays a visit, it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time and not one's own.
Lord Goring: You see, Phipps, Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Phipps: Yes, my lord. Lord Goring: Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. Phipps: Yes, my lord. Lord Goring: Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. Phipps: Yes, my lord. Lord Goring: To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance, Phipps. Phipps: Yes, my lord.

And my favourite:
Mabel: To look at a thing is quite different from seeing a thing, and one does not see anything until one sees its beauty.